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DAILY REGISTER
must be an engineer But Kate
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Johnny is off to Lake Placid
pre-
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in
Strange how the name of Judge
prater bobs up in the diary
One of our favorite waiters in
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BY MAIL, in
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dent Roosevelt on the epoch.
a
z5e
tat ion or stand
SMITH
ing
us:
The
Amm« ia ted
it into
his moth-
after -Colo-
allso
paper and
ask readers. "Why
Another tip for those who en-
them for buch
hat someone "recognized” him in
advert isements
had
Death Valley. Another account
1 .
The Word of God
have talked with men who are
sure •
Temporal
that he is in China. Now comes a
died, and then she did whit • she
ntry
IFTS KEEP OCR STANDARDS IP
f continued depression, the
Oil News
apparently
Dallas high sc tools, for instance.
ization has
ever known.
panion-
com
its railways. We consume a
per cent of
well. Julia,
third of the world’s coffee, sugar and elec-
better than half of its rubber
The mechanical labor saving devices in
3
the homes
if American workers are the
and staring
envy of even the wealthy people abroad.
h9me
tions for the Vth an i T
U.
ing school
pools. This area has around 49 pro-
■a
or oil
ducing welis with no outlet !
and that the ROTC
uniformed body
Smile' Awhile
back - •
pward. People don’t do that.
gravitate u
splendid training in
it would be untrue io say that advertising
attain-
ments.
tising inspi red and stimulated it.
THERE WILL SE SOME par-
It is the
I am making this simple fa t clear
ket places. To fulfill Ps missions advertis-
mili-
ing not on
progress in our
in
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your attractiveness, building
nevertheless.
training, to
Quick Start
men with
warrant pror ipt investigation by
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the
troubled world
l wants »
are not
to be well
equipped to fate the problems that the fu-
bring, manufacturing industry
Ground wor
must depend upon industry, di-
r
cause we
o
It was said so dispassionately
heart I agreed with
domestic defense of national
Divorce Docket
a
to
“war
a
Van
nerves.
ord.
reports a t
city, and Irma
an-
Britain’s victory over
niversery c
, Muen-
222-033 W. C.
Britain will tolerate
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a German attempt to
gle and as
a criminal case
pointed out.
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civil case; is
a juror in a
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nolia No. 7 and No. 8 Ramsey. Als:
made location on Neal P. Atkin)
the civilian population of this country. If
for n other reason, this is the case be-
promptly left the
grounds through,
an exit and pre-'
sented the book
for re-entry, us-
ing the lst tick-
did all this
States, i But
ture may
must be in
for the people of the United
it is entirely true that adver-
phasis laid
able car sup
or New Yock datelines
r i b u t e d to Italian
her ringless
at them as if
survey, abstract 1.248, in Walnut
Bend field. This company is re-
like
seem
A Resume of Developments in
Cooke and Nearby Oounties
drawn up for acqusi-
ubstantial numbers of
to accomplish the
of a local unit, if it
■ when all the facts
pare to weep them now. Weep
poor John McCartney, who left
school teacher from New York
thinks she saw him in Mexico.
for
he
of r
he
in
Since money
able for such
us Gainesville
tage of it if
military traini
in many of our
Rene de Chan
reported en i j
ton for duty
bassy's assistal
and a first-ha r
jand something must he dohe at
I once to get a market-for thi i pro-
y tells you about these goods
excite. your desire for them. It
very well. so he quit,
not think so, but Jeff
Drop in Crude Prices Effective
At Once. Wells May Be Closed
But when I
me complete-
schools at this
Without kno
presume that I
■la monthm. In
ndvanee ' - -
ents who won
we imagine. c
run (above) was
ute to Washing-
as French em-
it military attache
d report to Presi-
We use tiro-thirds of the world's auto-
mobiles,1 half of its telephones and forty
special roli
troops ant!
She stilled the quivering: of her
lips and turned the car carefully
night that
no parley.”
of that hand
And- besides,
about. She ll
I know she
occasion
that'all
like Better Service
COLLEGE, Pa (UP).—
already beer
tion of very
who A
two
week or mo ith. We have learned to loathe
unclean teet h and unwholesome breath. •
All this had to Be sold to us, says Na-
tion’s Business. We did not just happen to
Marriage License
G. R. Hensley. 62
Wheeler, 47. city.
with taking
be necessary
establishmen
seems feasib
are known.
LONDON
ports that a ।
offensive" i
f
as
of
trie energy,
and silk.
i re,
for
time.
ring the facts, we
lie national defense
n.years.
s goi ug I
him.s -
ago
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and watched her make a small
meal without. I was sure, knowing
what she put in her mouth.
The place was not unduly crowd-
ed, and I had, chosen an isolated
table. I talked a hit while she ate.
told her about Charlie and the
girl he had fallen inlove with, and
bear to hurt anyone
me.”
she had parked.
I ordered for her.
tumult.
"We want Roosevelt.'
gates yelled.
comfort from them,
finished she silenced
iy
Immense Orders
(Continue 1 From rage One)
ne got off the train that his pass book had just two tickets left it was *
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THE SIDE CAR
By HERBERT ELDRIDGE
Casual Slaughters
By VIRGINIA HANSON
Auto Registrations
Fassenger Cars
222-038 Henry L
glanced uncertainly from Julia to
me and said, ‘'That’s all for you
girls for the present.” *
They were deliberately silent un-
til we left the room.
“That’s done it," said Julia, as
soon as the door of her room had
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0,
George, 660 feet east of No. 1 Hud-
speth and 660 feet south of No 5
Snuggs. Sun Oil Company No. 6
Snuggs is taking potential. . |
Legal Records
, 16TH DISTRICT cot KT
Original
Did you get your husband a surprise on his 4
birthday?
I'll say I did. You never saw a more surprised
mAn in your life;
‘ What did you get for him?
Breakfast.
she had told' me, my’instinct cried
foul play. But how. find by whom.
I could only surmise .
To be continued.
If America resognizes these truths—
and the public today is demanding realism
in the work of achieving national security
— industry is capable of doing both these
jobs effectively.
And How Late?
"Sorry, honey. I'll be awfully busy at the of-
fice and can't be home until late.” .
"Can I depend on that?”
male 240 barrels within twenty-
feur hours on pump cut with 40
per cent salt water. Magnolia No.
7 Ramsey flowed 65.24 barrels of
oil within three hours on test. Ro-
tary is being moved to No. 8 Ram-
Willkie probably will get a lot of normally Dem-
ocratic votes (being so recently a Democrat him-
V
Different Now
My father is a self-made man. Why. he went
in the store as an office boy at $12 per month, and
in less than eight years he owned the store.
I couldn't do that in the store I’m working in
now.
Hews that.
Oh, we have cash registers. 1
will take the place
or be just as good
there’s Jeff to think
make him unhappy.
, sey which is 660 feet north of No.
that 7. Derrick is up for No. 15 Mc-
High Finance ’ .
"Whcih is the most valuable, a five-dollar bill
or a five-dollar gold piere?"
Why. the five-dollar bill, of course. Because
when you put it in your pocket you can double
it.”
"Right truly, and when you take it out you will
find it in creases.”
North and South comprcmised to-
day their differences over delegate
reapportionment for futur Demo-
cratic national conventions. This*
resulted in rubs committees ap-
proval of a plan for a bonus of two
delegates at large for each state
going Democratic' in a presidentiald
election.
The plan was to be submitted to
»
d the dele-
again.
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any longer,
the familiar
Not Forgotten
A lot of prominent citizens of Gainesville want
me to come back nd live there.
Really?
Yes; I get letters from the leading merchants
ever so often saying that they would like to have
me come back ami settle..
Cy Watkins knows a lawyer who for many
years grossly overcharged the beneficiary of an
estate for his services, without meeting the slight-
est objection. Being addicted to puns. Cy once re-
marked that "He plies through the heir with the
greatest of fee.".
” the dele-
'SIDE OK Cooke, rayson, Denton,
counties, Texas, and Love county,
I- Nii months. In ad.
k
laid for ‘an exten-
l
i
, NOTICE TO THE PUILIC
Any erroneous teflection upon the character, repu-
, - 1CK
et. It was at the moment he
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CONVICTED MAN STILL
HAS RIGHT TO WORK
New York
By GEORGE TUCKER
once a day instead of once a
put it. is
prosperity .
er’s funeral; not even
d look with dismay.
: such a movement.
ei vice; it seems to
shouli take advan-
ve can get such a
h
gd
64 acres in same area Sinclair- gates began whooping
Prairie Oil Company No. 1 Hud-
speth in J. O. Henderson surveys (
W-ESDA AFTERNOON, JU- 17, 1°
; nt for the youths '
raining.
ut that the school
the
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has
sl"monihi, i.
advanee "
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Talbot Patrick is the publish;
The State Fair of Texas, now
recognized as the most beautiful,
as well as the largest in the world,
is the result of the old “Dallas
County” fair, first organized,in
1856.
Washington
By JACK STINNETT
We are reliably informed that Hitler still has
some strong supprt from propertied classes in all
nations. Capitalists will never give up hope as
long as he apparently believes that something be-
longing to someone else is worth taking.
The entire shore line of Europe from the Arc-
tic ocean to Spain is now in the hands of the Ger-
mans This, as a radio announcer might say, was
just a coast to coast hook.
K
y
And so, we •
not?"
We are advis
individual that
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between the stone
tualitie S.
The propos it
"Ten years ago I arrived in town with only
one quarter, but that quarter began my fortune
at once.”
"You'must have invested it very profitably.”
"I did. I telegraphed home for money.”
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all other counties of the United
Owe year, la
ere
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in the flesh, ’ smiling and hand-
Some. He had dinner at a Brhad- ‘
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the convention for expected accep- *
tance today
The compromise overturned a
national committee proposal call-
ing for only one additional dele-
gate. Each state now has four dele-*
gates at large.
not allowed to vote except where restored
to full citizenship.”
But even these limitations upon enjoy-
ment of civil liberties does not extend to
those under a suspended sentence, Mann
out their chests and say: “Just look how strong
I am. If you touch me. I'll punch your middle
clear back to your spine.”
NEW YORK Talbot Patrick is the publisher of the Goldsboro. N.c.
News-Argus, an! every now and then he likes to take a run up to
New York. On his last outing here he went out to the fair realizing as
units in
T. C. Wyatt vs Dorotha Wyatt,
divorce. •
COTNTY COURT
Probate Docket
Bend. Piymouth sedan.
222-084 Mrs. J. 1 . Haynes, city.
Chrysler sedan.
John 4:14
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three months, to work just 15 min-
utes a day.
And what then. John?
"The day after I get ba, k ” says
John. “I leave for my vacation.”
that it didn't hurt
I brought -about all
in its accompl shments.
But we wou d suggest these par-"
ents reflect uy on the fact that such! ■ l
umn: The facts contained herein bear no re-
semblance to anything living or dead.
Roosevelt," he said, an
They were . for ten or fifte
what ha t
IITASHINGTON.— Answering the mail orders:
M Mrs J. T. K 1 Indianapolis—In spite of all
those stories you have read, the United States
fleet still is in the far Pacific and is likely to re-
main there unless some drastic change occurs in
Atlantic defense conditions.
- G. T., Rutherford, N. J. Your old friend and
brother in the bond. Jimmy Aswell, is put fr the
congressional race in Natchitoches, La., and it
looks at this printing as though he would be
around these parts soon after the first of the
year He was one of the principal platform ram-
rods in the fight against the old (and defeated)
Long machine. Since then the winds that drift
up from the southland have, been bringing me con-
sistent reports of Jimmy’s candidacy. If Jimmy
comes up this way after the first of the year,
guess we'll have to have a get-together and talk
of the time you wrote a glowing column about
what a swell guy Jimmy Aswell is and some South
Carolina editor (or was it Virginiai got confused
and ran it under a head that said “By James As-
well.” They tell me Jimmy Still keeps the Pullman
shades down when he goes through that city.
July 17 (AP). Re- ported to have made two locations
German-Italian “peace on G. L, Ramsey to offset Mag-
flat 75 cents a barrel for crude oil
purchased in Mexia and North Cen-
tral Texas.
The' compani formerly paid 79
cents a bai rel for crude of below 29
gravity, with a 2-cent differential
upward to $1.03 for 40 gravity and
above.
The company purchases 30,000
barrels daily in the area which in-
cluded the KMA and Hull and Silk
pools. »
Area affected by the action Tues-
day of the Sinclair-Prairie in post-
ing a flat 75 cents a barrel for
crude includes the North Central
part of Texas, ranging from Cole-
man county northward and includ-
ing the Mexia district.
From the Ranger or West Cen-
tral district. Sinclair runs approxi-
mately 4,000 barrels daily, while
1,000 barrels daily is purchased
from the Mexia zone, with the re-
maining 25.000 barrels run from
North Texas This includes 12,000
barrels from KMA, Wichita coun-
ty: 4,000 barrels from Hull and
Silk, Archer county; 4,000 barrels
frtr. stripper wells in two counties;
3,000 barrels from Walnut Bend
Cooke ecounty, and 2,000 barreh
from Montague county.
Pipe Une Needed for Fields
Scuthwest of Muenster
Russell and Russell No. 2 Ros-
sen in TCU-Stark pool, south of
Barney Voth pool, southwest of
Muenster, is being drilled 600 feet
south of No. 1 Rosson, recently
completed for 8 barrels an hour.
The No. 2 Reason was spudded this
week. Dodson and Powell have
made location for No. 2 Linn 344
feet west of No. 1 Linn and 160
sented he presented the book for
the second time, that he realized,
to .his amazement, that he was
using last year’s book from the
San Francisco fair.
self). but for that very reason probably will lose
sme of the ordinary die-hard Republicans. Per-
scnally. I think it's a little too early to .tell about
any of these supposed trends. The political pic-
ture.-based as it is almost entirely on the foreign
situation plus the shifting whim of the American
voter, can change a half dozen times between now
and November.. . . but it is anybody’s guess at
the moment as to what it is going to change from.
seems- to us to
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WEEKLY REGISTER
s10. adinnee
WEEKEY-REGISTER
Yesterday: When the Colonel
questions her. Kay keeps silent
about seeing Sandra in Ivan’s
arms, as Julia wished The Clo-
hel stops the investigation when
he learns that Jeff and Sandra
have run off.
quit hurting. I suppose. But you
can never find another hand.that
, [
Application of William
Strait, Jr., to establish birth rec-
R. E. B.. Joplin, Mo. Thanks for the tip on the
Admiral Dewey report at the navy department.
The department generously is working on it for
me and if I uncover any more minor or major
H. M. L.. Dallas, Tex. Your query about all
that gold that's stuck in a hole down in Kentucky
not only has your humble correspondent guessing,
but all the best economists and money theorists
around here as well. I'm trying to find out, but
it's beginning to look as though I’llhave to get a
quietly, spreading
fingers and looking
she had never seen
g. which has been
public schools the
sidered Republican under any circumstances. The
sideline guessers here now are saying that Mr. , and Mimi, freshly dressed for the
- - - "T day came out, 2]
“Oh, hello, Kay.” she said. “I
vasion, proi ably next Frilay.
The Daily Mail poihted out
Friday Jul / 19 will be the
herself. Then, closing the door
softly behind me. I tiptoed down
the hall to the bathroom. I was
ccming back with a wet washcloth
BY MAIL.
Htates:
broadcasting from her summer •
home on Lake Placid. Therefe
HE FACT that a man has been given
1 suspended sentence does not bar him
good running, order, and it must
continue to answer the requirements of
proper a zencies having to do
■ '' uch. action as imignt
training was ... . -
schools in the most peaceful day
"we have knov n and the only war-
duction. so men can be put
Ito work
and a towel for Julia when one of spoke of it, but I know he never
the doors along the corridor opened went home, except for1 hin '—*h
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likely before any at-
tempt to invade Britain were in-
job of advertising to quicken
the exchange of goods in the nation's mar-
family, putting more satisfaction into your
life. - ] I
Advertising should be encouraged to go
on its cheerful, constructive way, helping
to bufld the nation to greater economic
strength, maintaining our living standards
nel Tack had retired and he and
Sandra took an apartment in San
Antonio.”
"So he didn't see her either dur-
ing that time?”
"Not until his first class sum-
mer. Colonel Tack never got com-
L o n dor newspapers published
under Rome
Members of the AMociated Press, United Press,-
Texas Presn Asskiation, and th ter national Circu-
latton Matfi
them before.
"And after a while the stump will
elbow room"
, pAlLY REGISTEN
BY MAII in • ooke, Grayson, Denton, Montague,
Wipe counties. Texas, and Love county, Oklahoma:
that my flesh crawled. But in my
‘ her. After all
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-a---emte
In case ofetror- or omisstons occurring In local or
other advertisements or of omissions on scheduled
date, the publishers de not hold themselves liable
for damages further than the amount received by
nK of any firm. Individual or cor-
povation, wilbe gladly corrected upon being called
to Ilie publiphe t* attention
REPORT ER—Rescued in his-
toric battle of Flanders, Count
> provide more young
kmowledge of military
so that this country
guard the entrance of Fieldstone
* Inn.
"I don't want anything to eat.
but I expect you do," s he said when
— -----... GainesviHe or in Cooke, Grayson,
Denton, Montague, Wise countie*, Texas, and Love
county. Oklahonha:
discipline.'
would be be tt r prepared for even-
Ph. D., a thesaurus and couple of Morgan part- ' closed behind us, and burst into
ners on my side before I- can even discuss it ... tears.
And even then I’ll have to write above the col-' I let her cry, her sobs muffled in
the pillow, until she had exhausted
Li
Our personal standards are up. We shave
and bathe
terpreted by ssome Britons today
an axis r sort to a "war
refilled after the last ticket is used.
T get his re-
fill rin a hurry’.
Mr. Patrick used
one ticket enter-
from holding a job as a prison system em-
has been held by the attorney
months ago, sitting in a
store, smoking a pipe.
ster, Plymouth sedan:
Embry. Si veils
Dear Side Car:
I am a cub reporter on a small town paper.
The champion heavyweight boxer of our county.
Mighty Mike Mitchell, has licked every fighter
in this part of the state' He tried to enlist in the
army recently, but was turned down on account
of flat feet. How about a headline for this?
Scoop McGee.
Sure Scoop: "How the Mighty Hath Fallen
Arches.”
•-met e - «5
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Giving pigs more
and better service at meals results
per month will be charged.
and Wills Pci t are among the
towns which ha ve already fildd ap-
plications for. < stablishment of the
ROTC or stude it military training
to join the hq h school faculty as
instructor'in military training, that
the governmest pays his salary,
and also provii es the uniforms and
; grounds. He
boarding school. . •
I had been there one never-to- »
be-forgotten June Week the year
Charlie graduated; but I had-not
known Julia then. It was a strange
feeling to remember that week
the hope, the parades, the baseball
games, the horse shews. High-
hearted days through which I had
moved with Charlie beside me.
And to know now that near me. ,
crossing my path again and azain.
part of that glittering pageant, had
moved Julia, with Jeff by her side;
to know that I had walked past the
old brick quarters that faced up
the Hudson, had probably read the
neatly lettered sign. LT. f COL.
PENNANT, on the doorstep- the
quarters where Mimi had come as
a bride, where Jeff had lived every
moment of his free time during his
first three years at the academy,
until after his first-class summer,
when Sandra had come to the Pen-
nants for a visit and Julia had lost
him to her.
Julia took me inside those quar-
ters now, showed me a homesick.
in the opinion the attorney general took
to point out the misconceptin
ersons convicted of a crime lose
all civil Tights. “In the broadest sense of
the term citizenship, there is no law visit-
one convicted of crime the loss
he used to call her ’Mom.’ just to belong, rceive _
tease her. but she didn't take it .discipline, mill ary procedure, neat-
You might
ing. Every time we turned around
w ran into a mob of them. Those >
girls went to town. I'm telling you.
• Even Mimi had herself a time She I
was twenty-eight or nine, but she |
didn’t look much older than the I
rest of us. I was fifteen, and they |
let me have some slinkly cfothes.
There was one black satin evening
dress that was a skirt and a
prayer that I practically wept for
when I saw it and Mimi said, ’Let
her have it there's a moment that
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INDUSTRY’S TWO-FOLD JOB
G. P.,’San Diego, Calif.- Based • on the 1935/
popular vote, Wendell L. Willkie would have to
swing a little more than 5,000,000 votes that went
for Roosevelt and hold the 17,000,000 votes con-
pletely well his heart gave out.
Sandra stayed with him until he
All the pent-up emotions t h a t
had been held back through two
days of "routine and oratory burst
forth as Barkley finished i T h e
noise swelled into a rafter-shaking
wishes in all earnestness "
and sincerity to make it clear that
all of; the delegates to thisconven-
! tion are free to vot for any candi-
date." , .1
r
ing the Fair
Press in exclusively entitled to
publication of all news dispatches .
or not otherwise credited in this
to local news appearing herein.
Things Are Eternal: Whosoever drinketh qf the
Water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
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ing. upon__■ 1
of citizenship. A convicted citizen is yet a
citizen, but one whose civil rights have
been specially taken away or limited; he is
not permitted to testify in a criminal case
except in certain defined instances; he is
disqualified - i •—— i“
d by the interested
Denison. Denton
r had
re or
office
through whatever may come’to us in a
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scared plebe dodging into them
like a fox to cover; resting awhile,
not saying much, gathering cour-
age to go forth again
“I’ll never forget that first
but tris to
pictures th m as a means toward lighten-
ing yor burdens, increasing your leisure,
enhancing
your health, protecting your home and
ploy, it
general, according to comment in the State
Observer, published at Austin.
Mann’s opinion was at the request of
the prison system manager who pointed
but that the rran in question had made
good grades on his examination which fol-
lowed his application for a job.
Wildcat Test for Southeast
Cooke County
J. D. Hancock and others are
moving in derrick for wildcat test
to be drilled on F. F’. Alexander
land in John Woods survey, near
Burns City, in southeast Cvoke
county. Contract calls for 3,100
feet;
prophets on modern warfare, will be sure to let
you know.
Gainesville Daily Register
Ab.oea Aaipspzgznaurua, 1,25,
founded Al GU .st. 1830, by JOHN t LEONARD
Publieted Each Afternoon, Except Sunday '
THE nEqyrEa I'HIMIM. COMPANY, (INc.)
PLBLISHER$, GAINESVILLE, COOKE CO., TEXAS
Editorial atd Business Office, 308 K. California St
Entered’at the Gainesville, Texas, Postofrice
Con promise Made I .
CHICAGO, July 17 (AP, The
feet from south line of Linn lease.
Men are digging pits and getting
ready to move machinery to loca-
tion. This firm has staked othr lo-
cations to be drifled as soon as pipe
line connections can be had for,
field. Ray,, Bourland and Cannon
have made location for No. 6 Voth
to be drilled 450 feet east of No.
price of 50 centa
They might i terpret it as
taristic and wi rlike in purpose and
had always wanted to do came to
NoeakomememtWe her 1. ■
West Point. 1 4 T - ' - ‘ -
50e vance ---------- 82.50
■ months, in adtanee ______-____________1---51-25
One year, in advanee _______________________$3.00
When subseription is not pald. In advance or re-
newed within one week after expiration, straight
platitudes about fish in the sea
and a hundred y ears from now. She
listened and tried to take some
tn more rapid fattening at less
coat, two members of the agricul-
tural experiment station at Penn-
sylvania State College have dis-
covered.
! j
Montague,TWine <
Oklahoma: •
One month. In ad
s very” sensi-
tive to people’s feelin gs. He Can’t
Only only
sources, th, t the axis powers
would make a "last chance’ armis-
tice offer t “.fore launching an in-
comes once in a lifetime.' ”
•Only -Me’
"Where was Sandra then?”
“In Texas, with Jeff's mother
and father. Mrs. Tack died the fol-
lowing summer, and Colonel Tack
had a nervous breakdown and was
nearly a year in the hospital, so
Jeff had no tme to go home On the
next Christmas, and spent his Fur-
io with three other cadets on a cat-
tle boat that went to South Amer-
ica. I think his father turned
against his. You know how nerv-
ous breakdowns are. Jeff never
desperately at the road. .‘“There
were weekends when I couldn't get other equipm
Mimi was set on my finish- who take the '
„______1 but he never even took He points
blind drag. He'd spend the eve- grounds affor sufficient space for
ning with Dad and Mimi, or maybe drill purposes
he'd take Mimi to the hop or to makes anothe r
the movies. He liked Mimi available for 1 arades and celebra-
thought she was cifte.Fora while tions, while t te young men who
course of trail ing in our school.
OUR INFO MANT TELLS us
that the prog am would provide
for a commisioned army officer
Pleasures Soon Fade. Spiritual
will. She’s such.a devil.”
rectlyor indirectly, for a large part of the
revenues necessary to finance our huge
new detense program.
Industry has two problems which it
must deal with effectively. One is national
defense. The other, as one spokesman has
ness an l oti er virtuous
“Peace < ffensive reports were
interpreted variously by the Brit-
ish as inter fled to create a division
of opinion I etween Britain and the
United States, as reflecting an
Italian desi e to avoid a long strug-
Town Topics
By A. MORTON
A GAINESVI LE citizen asks
A “Why not an R. O T. C. unit
in Gainesvil e high school?"
9 *
8 1
Manhattan Every few months
Manhattan is Julius, who has been 'is supposed to have been seen
at the Pennsylvania hotel "Nine- some remote sector of the world,
teen years and eight months, sir.” In , Nw York his disappearance
Julius is the sort of picturesque and whereabouts s as muc’
old Manhattan character you don't mystery today as it was twelve
fergef. He looks like the man who years'ago. One night he was 1:
carries the drum in the Spirit of
'76. He has a special dessert which
he makes himself whose ingredi- day restaurant Some time du
ents are rum, strawberries, and ice he dinner,
cream. It's a Russian dessert. He himself, and walk. .
would be proud to fix it for you street. Not a single solitary
some night, if you are there, and man who ever knew him. or
ask him to. his interest at heart, knows where,
lie went or what happened t
to this convention:
"The president has neve
and has not todax any des
i purpose to continue in the
i g stocks for handling
heir equipment." Em-
Christmas.” she said. "I brought
three girls home from school and
we had a party every night The
plebes aren't permitted to leave,
you know, and they try’ to make up .
for all the fun they've been miss-
cheer- leader through the big mi-
crophones. stepped in and spanked
the convention back to order with *
his gavel. I
Senator Byrnes of South Caro-
lina. floor leader for the Roosevelt
forces announced that the resolu- .
tions committee had finished its
squabbles over what the platform *
should* contain and that the doc u-
ment could be adopted at the Wed-
nesday afternoon session.
“Tomorrow night we can meet .
to finish the job for which you e
came here of drafting F esident
A IRPLANES and tanks and guns
H th? sole needs of national defense. If
the United States is going
him in some African refuge
other day for Lake Placid an a s ea-
son of toil As you know. Kite
Smith hs a daily 15 minute broad-
' cast period. To broadcast there
5 Voth This well will be south of
creek and shott distance from •
TCU-Stark field. J; A. Eubank of
Dallas is curing titles to bloek of
acreage in southwest Cooke county
and will soon start location on Sam
Segraves ranch, southwe st of Era,
for an Ellenberger test. Oil qpera-
tors and Gainesville business, men
| are working on pipe line connec-
I of president, to be a candidate for
ci i- o , . that office, or to be nominated by
Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing the convention fo that office
Company announced that effective -He
Tuesday at 7 a. m. it would pay’ a |
IN SPITE
I people of the United States are blessed
with the highest living standard that civil-
pillars that
joy an occasional splurge in dis-
tinctive cuisines is this. Let Miro
at the Coq Rouge fix you a per-
fectly swell dish whichr contains
lobster and tuna.- It hasn't even
got a name. It's just something
Miro thought up. There are other
ingredients, but then Miro won't
talk. It's his secret and it is some-
"The United States
the une fur r
credited ro It
thei respective high
ful grooming, she looked hr age
or a little more this morning.
Which might be merely the result
of lost sleep.
Julia was sitting on the. side* of
the bed staring at the floor when I
came in. I gave her the damp cloth
and, while she scrubbed her face,
told her about our lunch date.
Nosta’gia
"Swell," she saib huskily. "Now
I won’t have to keep to my room
and answer dumb questions. I
wouldn’t want them to know about
this; they're so thick why Mimi
has promoted this marriage as if
her life depended upon it Not.”
she added with instinctive fair-
ness. “that she could have brought
it off without their cooperation.
I’m fool enough not to blame her.”
While she made hetself present-
able. and while we drove the ten
miles to Fieldstone Inn I encour-
aged her to talk about them
about Jeff and Sandra, and about
Mimi I learned much that had
been vague in my mind before
perhaps more,than Julia knew* she
was telling me. More, certainly,
than I had sense enough to recog-
nize until later, when 2dgan put-
ting the pieces togethr
F-n was oniv one thing she
omitted, and I don’t know yet
..e.er she simply didn’t think of
;♦ -hethe- she kent silent from
a sense of loyalty to her father
i u mih. hoi it was not until a
long time later that I learned about
Mimi where Colonel Pennant met
her, and hOw he came to marry
her. And that piece of information
was to make clear much that puz-
zled me
She talked now wistfully, with
nostalgia, of.the years just con-
cluded at West Point. Colonel Pen-
nant on duty at the post. Jeff a
cadet. Mimi a bride; Julia at home
weekends and vacations fro m
anee ________ 70 vance
One year, i ndvanee ------■------
Ry MAII in ones 6, 7 and •:
One month. In ad- Three montha, la ad-
Roosevelt."
“Florida wants Roosevelt]”
"Georgia wants Roosevelt."
“Illinois wants Roosevelt"
"New Jersey wants Roosevelt." •
Continue Cries
And so they went until it began »
to look as if the con vention k regu-
lar procedure might be swept
aside and the nomination: thrust
upon Mr Roosevelt at once.
"Michigan casts 38 votes for '
Roosevelt," came the cry. over and
e over.
But Barkley, who after deliver-
ing the long awaited message had
been alternately missing state
standards, autographing the card-
, board placards and acting as a
aspect : t this time, would
to be t le expansion of this
didn't know you were here. I've
slept outrageously late this morn-
ing. but we were up until all hours
last night. What's going on?"
"Colonel Pennant and Adam
have been questioning us," I said,
hoping she would let.it go at that.
I did not want to tell about Sandra
again I wanted to get hack to
Julia.
Colonel Pennant’s voice at the
foot of the stairs provided a wel-
comedistrection. ,,, Jeff had never had any girl but
"1 htha tyou, M — ’ you Julia. Had. ne ver. ' ‘
come down here, please? . . . . * 11’
. p:12 - .. i. w.,, looked at ayone else.
Right away, she called back. ... .0 ...
Mrs. D. C. L„ Denver, Colo I think I can as-. "Yofnstayanashaye dinner with Varied as ng natural
sure you that the government is not devoting all sndavls Youm And I’m afraid ship based on hilchood assoeia-
its time to rearmament and overlooking the pos- • ’ - W, . . aad tion, was heading apparently to-
sibilities of the trade war which may result when noon ofr , ‘ ‘ ward one of those early marriages
the European battles are over. My hunch is that thought of lulils tear swollen that often turn out so
the first big hint of how much time is being de- 1 uncomfortable cm at least, never doubted that they
voted to it win come out of the Pan-American Csity Or rahhilesc I made up my would be married in the chapel on
conference at Havana. • mind quickly * his graduation day.
’ Because trade wars have no roots in strutting "Tve asked Julia to have dinner "Why. everyone knew he was
and braggadocio, our economic plans are a good with me somewhere we thought mine,” she told me. clenching her
deal more secret than our armament aims. Trad- wed like to go to Fieldstone Inn • hands on the wheel
ers have to be sly, but when it comes to putting. - if I can borrow a car."
on armor, all nations act like little boys' and- throw "Take mine," she said, as I had
hoped she would. Fieldstone Inn is
an ultrarespectable roadhouse on
• the Chicago road. I thought she :
looked surprised, buj not suspi-
clous. “Where is Julia?”
"In her room. Tanks for the car
you're sure you won't be want-
ing it this afternoon?”
"No. Stay as long as you like.
Only be back before dark. These
roads around here are not safe."
It was in my mind that she did
a good bit of driving after dark
herself, but of course I did not say
so. I watched her start downstairs
and thought that, for all her care-
in creation of a suit- everal Locations staked
ly to meet emergency In Walnut Bend Hield
demands up n rail transportation Loction is being cleared for
__ Sinclair-Prairie Oil Company No.
England (alls It acrescFannEconeyshoonan
A ‘Wat of Nerves’
sive educatiq nal campaign to mo-
bilize public sentiment behind the
idea that t e -civilian .population
must be p epared physically to.
meet' the d fense responsibilities
placeri upon t by any emergency.”
Transport tion (Ralph Budd)
“Concrete r commendations have
he got' up excused
"You can lose a ha nd.” [she said
‘Draft Roosevelt .,
(Continued From Page One)
I - !
Chapter 20
Lunch Date
" BUST a minute sir," said Adam.
J “It's possible there’s another
explanation for this thing ”
Colonel Pennant stopped,
scowled. "What do you- mean an-
other explanation?"
"The murder investigation,”
Adam reminded him gently.
The colonel was shocked out of
his anger.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
he protested. But he did. An ex-
pression of uneasiness crept over
his face. He started to go on.
One ear, la
advanee _______ $1.50
Yet, it hasn't been so long
threw the 1 ritish off guard before
starting an i offensive in forge.
/ • ’ • t.e . a -. .
the Spanish armada in 1588.
The pres.1 declared 1 rane Minis-
ter Winsto: I Churchill had served
notice in his broadcast last Sunday
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